A CYLINDRICAL BARIUM FLUORIDE FILM ELECTRIC HYGROMETER ELEMENT FOR AIRCRAFT CLOUD PHYSICS STUDIES,

Abstract

Since characteristics of the barium fluoride film electric hygrometer element, namely: (1) rapid response to changes in humidity; (2) high sensitivity at high humidities; (3) ability to indicate saturation without apparent deleterious effect on the element; and (4) small hysteresis effect, indicated that the element might have potential as an experimental tool for humidity measurements in cloud physics studies, adaptation of the element for aircraft cloud physics studies was undertaken. The element was fabricated in a cylindrical shape for use in an axial flow vortex probe. The performance characteristics of the cylindrical element were similar to those of the flat elements. A portion of a chart record for a pass through three clouds is included. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 22, 1967
Accession Number
AD0828359

Entities

People

  • Frank E. Jones

Organizations

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Axial Flow
  • Biological Phenomena
  • Cloud Physics
  • Clouds
  • Ecological And Environmental Phenomena
  • Ecological And Environmental Processes
  • Flow
  • Fluorides
  • High Humidity
  • Humidity
  • Hygrometers
  • Hysteresis
  • Measurement
  • Physics
  • Saturation

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science
  • Physics

Readers

  • Climatology
  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics
  • Structural Dynamics.